Actors Quotes - Page 36

Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

It's of course understandable that people want to know about actors in their favourite series.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.